Indigenous Christianity and Empire in the Middle East

Harvard HDS

This course examines Christianity, indigeneity, and empire through Middle Eastern Christian communities and their diasporas. Where the study of World Christianity has emphasized growth, mission, and inculturation, this course foregrounds dispossession, displacement, and presence. It asks how war, colonial legacies, and secular governance shape the categories of "minority," "religion," and "indigeneity," and how Christian communities in/from the Middle East mobilize them to claim sovereignty,…